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[–] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Oh shit!

This post actually made me look for a solution and I found one!
Solution to opening tiktoks without using tiktok app or site, not how to stop ur friends sending u garbage.

It made me think... mpv player can play basically any link you throw at it (thanks to yt-dlp), and we also have mpv on Android, so why can't we do it there as well. And sure enough, I found this https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android/pull/58, someone baked yt-dlp in mpv for Android, making it possible to open link in mpv (share >> play in mpv)

It works for instagram and all other shit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Can't wait to try this out. Thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I have just moved to mpv from mx player due to this comment. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Well that's pretty cool

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

If you are sending the links through discord/chat with embed add vx in front of tiktok and it becomes playable in discord itself. (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8b81Gu1/ -> https://www.vxtiktok.com/t/ZT8b81Gu1/)

In a removed move, a normal tiktok link will have a play button on the icon like it should play, but can't. This one actually will.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So do we need to download something from your link to make that work? Or is it already part of MPV?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Gotta download the APK from the link

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

While this is useful, it could be even better! If the AndroidManifest.xml also contained support for Facebook, TikTok and Instagram links it could be set to directly open them instead needing to share it to mpv.